Lost and Found

This turned out to be a pretty long day, but very fun, so totally worth it! And we may or may not have been lost for a good amount of the day as well, haha. We started off at the V&A Museum (Victoria Albert Museum), that was pretty cool. There were so many cool greek sculptures, and old furniture and paintings, and the list goes on! I took like a million pictures, however I decided that it wasn't really necessary to post them all, since most people aren't into all that jazz hah.

Although, this Chihuly piece was pretty remarkable hanging in the entry way of the museum. I love that they mixed this uber modern piece with this ancient buildling. The juxtaposition is just wonderful :)

After the V&A, we went back to our flats for lunch on our own, and then we headed over to the Tate Modern Museum and passed some great sites on the way! The picture below is myself cheesin it up on the London bridge with the Tower Bridge in the backround. Pretty cool place!

After the Tate Modern Museum, we hit up Nandos for lunch! None of us had ever been there before so we weren't really sure what we were getting ourselves into... but I was pretty excited when my food came out!

Steph, Me, Madi

Molly, Laurs, Elyse

Fun Menus!

Yummm! I ended up splitting a huge entree meal with Stephanie. It consisted of a whole chiken cooked with their Medium Hot sauce. French Fries with a peppery spicy seasoning on top, delicious "velvety" mashed potatoes, two slices of garlic toast ( I forgot what kind of bread it was, but it was most excellent) some seasoned rice, a couple waters, and more sauces to dip our chicken in! :) It was quite tasty, and our whole experience there was inspiring! I'm telling you, restaurants in London really know what they're doing! Everyone I've been too so far has produced mouth watering dishes, and has had over-the-top designs! Two thumbs up for that!

We did a pretty good job of polishing everything off. It looks like there still might be some chicken on the plate, however there was not, we cleaned the bones dry (there were a lot of bones! Well a whole chickens worth right? hah)

After we filled out stomachs we went for a walk around town, and ending up taking a short trip to St. Pauls cathedral. The entry was closed, but it was awesome to see this magnificent building up close and get a feel of the scale of the building, and how detailed the stone work is. Very cool cathedral!

SO! After we've been looking that the Cathedral, in the distance we see the Gherkin building, and we decide that we HAVE to go there! Not knowing exactly where it is... and after asking a few people who were obviously clueless as to its whereabouts, we hopped on the tube and rode one stop, (where some man told us he thought it was) we get off, and we're not even able to see the building anymore... but alas, we start walking in hopes that we are close! We walked... and walked....and walked....and walked...and saw some sweet buildings, and walked some more. We asked probably 5 or 6 different people if they knew where the building was, and of course all of them pointed in different locations, haha. It was beginning to become rather annoying, but we all had some great laughs along the way, and we were VERY happy when we finally made it!!

I love the contrast of the old and new. You see this everywhere in London, its awesome. :) After we paparazzi'ed the Gherkin with hundreds of photos, we made our way to the tube and headed to Covent Square Garden. Most things close in London around 6-8pm, which is way weird, especially for the weekend, hah, but anyway, since shopping wasn't an option, we ended up watching a couple of street shows. One of which consisted of a guy in his underwear on a 12' unicycle juggling, and later juggling a ball with a huge knife, and a running chainsaw (pretty impressive). There were a couple of other musicians playing on the street, so Laura and Elyse grabbed some "Icreamists" ice cream ( a punk rock ghetto but well designed ice cream parlor) and we sat and watched this older black man play guitar and sing. He had an awesome voice! I was amazed! And we watched him until he finished playing for the night, he hit the tube again, and headed back to our flat.

It was a loooong day! But definitely had some great experiences and memories to hold on to! :)